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Guard of honour for 20 bravehearts

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The 20 men — five from IAF, nine from NDRF and six from ITBP — were accorded the honour in presence of Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde, Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna and Army chief Gen Bikram Singh at a ceremony in Dehradun.

Twenty bravehearts killed in Tuesday's helicopter crash in Uttarakhand were on Friday given a guard of honour, even as operations commenced to clear the layers of debris under which many bodies were feared buried, amid reports of 3,000 people missing. (AFP)

The 20 men — five from IAF, nine from NDRF and six from ITBP — were accorded the honour in presence of Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde, Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna and Army chief Gen Bikram Singh at a ceremony in Dehradun. (AFP)

"The guard of honour to the 20 bravehearts is a little step from our side to remember their supreme sacrifice for the service of the nation. We offer our prayer to all those who lost their lives," Shinde said. (AFP)